King Charles of New York City
Subtitle: the life of Charles Barnes Towns : how a poor Georgia farm boy became a world authority on drug and alcohol treatment
By: Gary W. Neidhardt
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781504908672
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Charles B. Towns Hospital; History; Treatment; Drug addiction; Alcoholics Anonymous; Substance abuse treatment facilities; Alcoholism; Substance abuse
Other titles: How a ninteenth century Georgia Farm Boy became a Manhattan-based sovereign authority on alcohol and drug treatment; Life of Charles Barnes Towns
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings, 1862-1904; title: Connections, 1904-1908; title: China, 1908-1909; title: King Charles of New York City, 1909-1919; title: The Century Magazine articles, 1912. The injury of tobacco, March 1912 ; Help for the hard drinker, June 1912 ; The peril of the drug habit, August 1912 ; The drug-taker and the physician, October 1912; title: The Harrison Act, December 1914; title: Habits that handicap, August 1915. Chapters I-III on drug addiction ; Chapter IV : psychology and drugs ; Chapter V-VII on alcoholism ; Chapters VIII-IX on tobacco ; Chapter X : the sanatorium ; Chapter XI : preventive measures ; Chapter XII : classification of habit-forming drugs ; Chapter XIII : psychology of addiction ; Chapter XIV : relation of alcohol and drugs to insanity; title: Medical review of reviews, December 1914-July 1917; title: The peak, December 1916-December 1917; title: Medical review of reviews, August 1917-April 1918; title: The Towns treatment; title: The fall from grace; title: Four brochures to attract physicians; title: Reclaiming the drinker, 1931; title: Drug and alcohol sickness, 1932; title: Dr. William D. Silkworth hired by Towns, 1929-1951; title: The job offer at Towns Hospital, 1937?; title: Towns' contributions to Alcoholics Anonymous.